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  2. Shorten Long Trails

    ON far western tracks motor waggons have wiped out the jobs of hundreds of men and closed numerous wayside refreshment houses, but ...

    Article : 207 words
  3. 1936 Way of Catching Fish

    MR. JOHN TOOMEY, ex-Royal Navy deep-sea diver, of Newmarket Road, Wilston, tells this story, and vouches for its authenticity:— ...

    Article : 263 words
  4. So They Say

    I LIVED a while in Broken Hill when there wasn't much, water for gardens. A welcome regular was the "vegetable train," which came on ...

    Article : 213 words
  5. Sea Savage

    THE big basker shark, pictured in The Queenslander (12/11/36), is no more to be feared than a sunfish, for all his size, for he feeds on small ...

    Article : 274 words
  6. Scared Stiff

    THE wife of a farmer near Gatton had been worried by foxes taking her fowls. The brutes were wary and avoided traps, so the henhouse was ...

    Article : 129 words
  7. Christmas Duff

    BLACK JINNY, who was washerwoman and laundress at the station, had taken great interest in the cooking preparations for the ...

    Article : 188 words
  8. Poison Cure

    "COMET'S" mention of ear-cutting as a poison cure (Queenslander, 1/10/36) recalls a general election when two of the station hard cases ...

    Article : 178 words
  9. Gilbert and Sullivan

    IN enforcing their admirable and self-drafted and administered table of laws, the Torres Straits Island ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. Abo Oddity

    IT is not often that one finds an abo, who dislikes the company of other blacks. There was one I knew at Bundooma station, on the Boyne River, who was known as "Big Tom." ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. Too Perfect

    DESPITE the ever-increasing air routes that are regularly flown over, there are still many parts of Australia that have never known the ...

    Article : 264 words
  12. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 358 words
  13. Coco-de-mar

    I'M pretty well acquainted with bechede-mer, but hadn't heard of cocode-mer until the other day. According to a botanical writer, the coco-de-mer ...

    Article : 161 words
  14. Land Eels

    WALKING round his rabbit traps one wet night a trapper saw what he thought was a small snake crawling through the wet grass. He ...

    Article : 115 words
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